Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hello everyone and welcome to what is in some ways a small follow up to last weeks video, where we ordered a bundle of parts from China...The CPU we ended up with was actually a mid range Sandybridge i3 CPU, and it got me thinking, just how much of the systems limitations came from this old CPU, so join me today in a little bit of a quick video to find out, just how are these old i3s holding up in 2025, and is this really the first time that we call something obsolete here on Budget Builds Official?

Intro: 0:00
Will it work with an NVME Drive & Windows 11 - 0:24
The Specs? - 2:30
What is the history of the Sandybridge i3? - 3:13
Yes...It works fine for General Usage - 6:36
The Test System - 8:14
The 2025 Benchmarks! - 9:13
Benchmark Summary & Comparison to Core i5 - 19:29
Extra Bits - 21:03
So it is Obsolete? - 22:28


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